The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-24
PEOPLE WHO ARE KNOWN.
Bits of Gossip Concerning Men and
Women of More or Less Note,

Bits of Gossip Concerning Nen and
Women of More or Less Note.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that he was
once offered pay for a poem in praise of
certain stove polish, but declined.
The wife of Senator Jones, of Nevada, is
the principal mover in the establishment of
home at the capital for abandoned babes and
children.
The Princess of Wales is passionately fond
of the odor Of cherry blossom, and London
society ladies now carry tiny viais OF the per-
fume about their person.
Ex-Governor Curtin was recently called
upon by soldiers widow, for whom he had
secured a pension, and given a half dozen
kisses in public for the assistance he had
rendered.
"Plon Plon's" second son, Prince Louis Ma
poleon, who wants to go with the Italian
army and fight Arabs at Massowah, has en-
tirely renounced his French citizenship in
favor of Italy.
The late Mr.. W. H Vanderbilt promised to
pension his coachman if the latter would for
swear drink. The man kept sober for some
months, but Mr.. Vanderbilt was finally com
pelled to discharge him.
DR.. Junker, the famous Russian explorer of
Africa, plays the ACCORDION. This humble
fact considerably modiies the bubbling Joy
over his escape from the barbarians of the
dark continent.
E. P. Roe, the essayist and novelist, is
working hard in Santa Barbara, Cal He
denies himself to all callers during the day
and remains at his writing desk from o'clock
a. IN. to in the afternoon.
Ex-Judge Edwards Pierrepont thinks that
the power which the French law gives to a
! husband over his wife, when there are no
| ante-nuptial limitations, can almost be COM
| pared to the power of the stakeholder over
Ais slave.
Private advices from London state that
Martin f. Tupper is almost entirely broken
| down in health. He can neither read, write
nor speak intelligibly, though his mind is
clear. He viii be II next July.
| Sir Fitzjames Stephen has abandoned his
| intention of writing monogram on Carlyle.
! His relations with Carlyle were intimate
! that his book was expected to prove an I'M
portant addition to biographical literature
Old friends of Gen. Simon Cameron, who
| have seen him since his return from Bermuda
! to Donegal, are quoted as saying that he has
greatly changed for the worse, and that his
health is really precarious.
Sarah Bernhardt is a generous liver She
! has coffee and rolls before rising, and at II
! eats hearty breakfast. with claret. She
| dimes well at and has supper after theatre
hours, usually nothing more than bouillon,
cold meats and fruit and sometimes terrapin.
Miss Kate Field does not believe in Lady
Haberton's 'reform dress" She sent over to
London for one of the divided skirts" put it
on and went ont for a walk. 1t began to
rain. She tried to hold the garment up out
of the mud. but couldn't. It was worse than
the ordinary dress. When she got home it
was terribly bedraggled and she sold it next
| day to a second hand dealer.
Patti was i'll ST. Paul the other day and
gave a concert. After she had sung Home,
| Sweet Home" prominent citizen in prom
to get Glove. He went because, as he said
he never expected to hear Patti again, and
she always wanted to remember her with tho
melody of that song ringing in his SOUL"
Richard Penistan was an actor in his
younger days, but finally retired from the
stage after winning first prize in the Ha-
vuna lottery which netted him $3.50, 900. He
then purchased q stock farm in Kentucky,
purchased the stallion Fellowcraft, and
started to raise horses. His hospitality and
generosity exceeded his ability to sustain
them, and he finally wandered back to Phila-
delphia and has since been living in poverty
He is now an inmate of the Forrest Home